A Quote by Daniel Kahneman

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman
Israeli - Psychologist
Born: March 5, 1934

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

Esther Dyson

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

Jimmy Hill

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

Indro Montanelli

There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.

Carol S. Dweck

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Neil Armstrong

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

Michael Musto

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Mike Watt

The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

Andrew Rosenthal

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

Orhan Pamuk

Pundits talk as if polls are always right, but if they were, pundits wouldn't have jobs.

Mollie Hemingway

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

Cheech Marin

Pundits will be pundits. We don't think too much of the punditry.

Baiju Bhatt

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

Juan Williams

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

Indro Montanelli

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Megan Boyle

Footballers, managers, pundits and fans make up possibly the biggest tribe of them all, especially in this country. Whatever is said by pundits is echoed across sofas and in pubs all over the nation.

Susie Dent

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